Mark Franklin is the Chief Investment Officer of Emso. Mark began his career in international banking in 1979 and lived and worked throughout Latin America holding various positions in Argentina, Colombia and Mexico. He joined Salomon Brothers in 1986 to establish and co-run their emerging markets customer business. Following his appointment to the position of partner in 1991, he joined Salomon's proprietary trading division where he started and successfully ran the emerging markets investment business until the merger with Citigroup. After the merger he founded the Emso Fund, established Emso Partners Limited (then as a subsidiary of Citibank), and ultimately executed its employee buyout in 2013. Mark holds a BA from Brown University in Economics. He is a Trustee of Tusk, a pan-African charitable trust.

John Hynes is a portfolio manager focusing on liquid alternative strategies. Before joining Emso in 2011, Mr. Hynes spent 17 years at Fidelity Investments and Fidelity International, most recently within the Emerging Markets Equity Group, working as a Portfolio Manager for the Fidelity Series Emerging Markets Fund. At Fidelity, he also held at various times the positions of Global EM Analyst, European HY Credit Analyst, European Equity Analyst; Co-head of International Fixed Income, and Senior Global Bond Trader. Previously, he worked as a Global Bond Trader at Watermark Management, and began his career as a Research Associate at Temple, Barker & Sloane. Mr. Hynes earned an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. in Economics from Dartmouth College.

Mark Lee is the Founder and Managing Member of Mountaineer, an opportunistic value and event hedge fund founded in 2011 that invests long and short in equity and debt. Prior to founding Mountaineer, Mr. Lee worked at Contrarian Capital Management, LLC ("Contrarian") from 1999 to 2011. He joined Contrarian as a distressed debt analyst, and then in 2003 founded and was the sole Portfolio Manager for the Contrarian Long Short Fund for eight years until he departed to launch Mountaineer in January 2011. In late 2008, Mr. Lee also assumed management of the Contrarian Distressed Equity Fund, which he managed until his departure in January 2011. Both Contrarian Long Short and Contrarian Distressed Equity utilized a similar analytical framework to Mountaineer. Prior to Contrarian, Mr. Lee worked as an Associate at Blavin & Co., a concentrated, long-biased value fund, and as an Associate at Centre Partners, a Lazard-affiliated private equity firm. Mr. Lee began his career in finance in 1992 as an investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston. Mr. Lee received an MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB, Magna Cum Laude, from Harvard College.

Mr. Johnson is the Portfolio Manager who manages the portion of the Multi-Strategy Alternative Fund allocated to Ramius, and serves as a Managing Director of Ramius Advisors, LLC. Mr. Johnson joined Ramius in 2007 as a Research Analyst on the Ramius risk arbitrage desk. Prior to joining Ramius, Mr. Johnson was an Associate specializing in mergers & acquisitions at Legacy Partners Group, a middle market advisory firm. Prior to that, Mr. Johnson worked at Lehman Brothers as an Equity Research Analyst focused on technology companies. Mr. Johnson received a B.A. in Economics (Honors & Distinction) from the University of Michigan and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Koitchev has served as a Portfolio Manager for the Multi-Strategy Alternative Fund within the Investment Management Team for SIMC since April 2014. Mr. Koitchev joined SEI in June of 2009.

Andrew Kurita is the Founder of Kettle Hill and has served as a Portfolio Manager since Kettle Hill's inception in 2003. Prior to this role, Mr. Kurita was a Vice President at Andor Capital Management, LLC, where he covered the industrial sector for the Diversified Growth Fund . From 1996 to 2001, Mr. Kurita worked at Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn, LLC, where he was a Vice President and Analyst on hedge fund and small cap value products. Mr. Kurita is a CFA charterholder with more than 23 years of small cap and hedge fund investing experience. Mr. Kurita graduated cum laude with honors with a B.A. in Economics from Williams College in 1995.

Mr. Donald Morgan is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Investment Officer, Portfolio Manager and Managing Partner at Brigade Capital Management.

Douglas C. Pardon joined Brigade in 2007and became involved with the investment decision made with respect to the High Yield Bond Fund in 2017.. Prior to joining Brigade Capital Management, LP. Mr. Pardon was a Vice President/Senior Analyst in the High Yield Group at Lehman Asset Management. Mr. Pardon also served as an Analyst in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group at Merrill Lynch & Co.

Mr. Desai is a Portfolio Manager of Putnam's technology and TMT long/short equity strategies. He joined Putnam in 2012 and has been in the investment industry since 1997. Previously at Putnam, Mr. Desai was a Portfolio Manager, Analyst on the Equity Research team, conducting fundamental analysis and valuation of global internet and IT services companies. Prior to joining Putnam, he was a Partner at Crosslink Capital from 2009 to 2012; an Analyst at Tudor Investment Corp/Raptor Capital Management from 2005 to 2009; a Senior Associate at Thoma Cressey Equity Partners, now Thoma Bravo, from 1999 to 2003; and an Analyst in the Global TMT Group, Merrill Lynch Investment Banking, from 1997 to 1999. Mr. Desai earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Economics from Duke University.

Steven Hornstein is the Chief Investment Officer, Managing Member, and co-founder of the Manager. Mr. Hornstein is primarily responsible for portfolio management, trading, and idea generation at the Manager. From 2006 - 2008, Mr. Hornstein served as a partner at Sailfish Capital Partners, LLC (“Sailfish”) where he launched and managed the Leveraged Finance strategy. From 2004 - 2006, Mr. Hornstein was employed at Pinewood Capital Partners, LLC (“Pinewood”), a long/short credit hedge fund manager where he served as Partner/Head Trader/Portfolio Manager. From 2001 - 2004, Mr. Hornstein was a partner and Head of Credit Trading at Imperial Capital LLC (“Imperial Capital”), an investment banking firm specializing in High Yield and Distressed Debt. Before that, Mr. Hornstein was employed by Donaldson, Lufkin, and Jenrette Inc. (“DLJ”) for 18 years including seven as a Principal and Managing Director. While at DLJ, at various times he managed the Institutional Corporate Bond Trading group, and headed DLJ’s High Yield trading desk. Mr. Hornstein is a graduate of C.W. Post Center of Long Island University, where he received a BA in Political Science. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Long Island University.